I am just an old gal, with some time on her hands, and loose thoughts from time to time... Wife, mother of 8, grandmother of 20 and great-grandmother of 21

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Scared of Dying?

Scared of dying? Hell, no… We are scared of living.It isn’t the living itself… it is the pay for it. Paying forto stay healthy … and when you aren’t healthy.

Then there is health insurance… just this week the Kinggot notice that his insurance is going up $40 a month more.He was going without insurance for 4 years. Pay as yougo was what we did.. if we didn’t have the money, we didnot go to the doctor. But he was scared, because if he gotseriously sick, we could lose our home. So we health insuranceshopped.

The cheapest we could find was $365.66 a month. Just for him.That was with $10,000 deductible. That means the first $10,000was on us. But it did allow 4 doctor visits a year. Well, nowa year is up and they want $40 more a month, sending it to $405.66.

Where do we find the extra $40 is the question. Shave our foodbudget? As the rest of our bills are the usual,. utilities, and gas forthe car. We don’t have a credit card bill. And it is 2 more monthsto his summer job. Oh, well, we will figure it out… usually do.